Onitsha Mob Sets Robbery Suspects Ablaze

The suspects, who were said to have operated on a motorbike, had snatched a bag containing cash from a lady who just withdrew the money from a nearby bank.

Eyewitnesses told Southern City News that the robbers snatched the money at gunpoint, but people around, who noticed what was happening gave them a chase, caught them, beat them with clubs, stoned them before setting them ablaze.

“I tell you that the crisis you see in the #state emanating from the Okada riders are from non-indigenes, especially those from #Kogi, who have been engaging us in communal war, destroying our property and killing our people over the orient petroleum sited at Anambra East Local Government Area of the state.

“There should be decorum amongst the Okada men and it is unfortunate that those who graduated from Okada to Keke (tricycle) are the same people and have the same methodology of operation,” the commissioner said.